Hi, 2008/11/10 Leslie P. Polzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: - Show quoted text - > >> On 2008-11-10, Leslie P. Polzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ever tried Common Lisp? >> >> I'm not a fan of Lisp syntax. > > That's too bad, you're really missing out on something > -- not least *because* of the syntax. :) > personally I take a rather pragmatic aproach: If you can do what you want to do in your programming language of choice, use it. Just because a programming language contains great features doesn't mean that the resulting code will be good. A programmer has to exploit the possibilities a programming language offers. If he fails to do so, he will probably write bad code. I'll never forget one of my teachers telling me that I used java to store my functions. I'm still not sure that I understand what he meant. ;-) But if one knows how to use a programming language one is already familiar in, it can be assumed (to some degree) that the code is of some quality and conforms to some standards of this specific programming language. That's why I feel that every programmer should use the programming language of his or her choice. Of course this doesn't work with bigger projects. In this case I think nearly all programming languages would be fine, as they are many window managers written in many diffderent programming languages. That's why I think that this discussion is kind of... pointless.
Christian
